Risk Appetite Report
Risk Appetite Wanes From North to South
NYISO and NEPOOL decision-makers remain the most interested in price risk. ERCOT buyers more than doubled their interest in price risk while PJM increased slightly and NEPOOL was unchanged week-over-week. Read more
Risk Tolerance: A Tale of Two Markets
ERCOT and NYISO opinions sit at opposite ends of the risk spectrum this week. Read more
BIG Changes in Customer Risk Appetites
The week preceding the holiday saw some major changes in risk appetites among customers. Read more
Market Risk Appetite: Two Up, Two Down
It was a volatile week in natural gas and electricity prices as most benchmarks moved lower. Read more
Dietary Restrictions In Place for Risk
Overall, there isn’t much appetite for risk according to this week’s report. No markets displayed a hunger for risk above 20% of price-quoted load. Read more
Risk Appetite: ERCOT Buyers Looking for Bargains
ERCOT prices are in a neutral trend and NYISO and PJM are uptrend. This could help explain the divergence we see in the risk appetite report as ERCOT buyers took a “risk on” approach this week while their counterparts to the North chose to back off. Read more
Risk Appetite: Two Up. Two Down
Energy buyers in PJM and NEPOOL showed slightly more tolerance for risk week-over-week. Read more
Risk Report: ERCOT, NYISO Buyers Continue Divergent Paths
NYISO customers continue to show increasing comfort with risk, while ERCOT buyers are doing the opposite. In fact, it’s the biggest spread between two markets that we’ve seen since the Risk Appetite Report was launched. Read more
PJM, NYISO Buyers Show Increased Comfort Level with Risk
Pricing volume is up and so is the appetite for risk among PJM and NYISO buyers. NYISO decision-makers were more than twice as comfortable with risk as their counterparts in ERCOT and NEPOOL for the period. Read more
Risk Appetite: The NYISO State of Mind
NYISO buyers showed the biggest appetite for risk this week at 25%. In fact, going back to January 2017, NYISO pricing requests have only consistently shown an appetite at this level one other time. That was the last week in August of 2017. Read more